Roberta Flack - Softly With These Songs: The Best Of Roberta Flack (1993)

I've got most of these tracks on other discs, but this CD is a fantastic chronological compilation nonetheless. I think the track selection is a bit odd - I figured it would be skewed to the '70s, not the '80s - but then again, the compilation is titled "best of" not "greatest hits." I'm a big fan of the Flack-Hathaway duets and believe Where Is The Love is one of the best songs of the 1970's. I have to admit that it is quite a journey from the sparse beauty of track one to the pounding four-on-the-floor dance mix of track 17.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart

Tracks:

	Song	Year	Hot 100	AC	R&B
1	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	1969*	1	1	4
2	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow	1972	76	15	38
3	Where Is The Love	1972	5	1	1
4	Killing Me Softly With His Song	1973	1	2	2
5	Feel Like Makin' Love	1975	1	1	1
6	The Closer I Get To You	1977	2	3	1
7	More Than Everything	1980
8	Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)	1980
9	Back Together Again	1980	56		18
10	Making Love	1982	13	7	29
11	Tonight, I Celebrate My Love	1983	16	4	5
12	Oasis	1988		13	1
13	And So It Goes	1988
14	You Know What It's Like	1988
15	Set The Night To Music	1991	6	2	45
16	My Foolish Heart	1991
17	Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes) (Steve Hurley's House Mix)	1988	✝

*originally released in 1969, but charted in 1972 after being featured in the 1971 film, Play Misty For Me.
^✝#1 on Billboard's Dance chart

Missing Top 40 hits: You've Got A Friend (#29, 1971), Jesse (#30, 1973), and If I Ever See You Again (#24, 1978).

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: On today's listen, The Closer I Get To You took me right back to 6th grade and spending Friday nights at the local skating rink - "This next skate is ladies' choice!"

Previously revisited for the blog:
Original Album Series (2012)